Once Upon a Tide

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NEW! Introducing original curriculum from the Center of Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. This comprehesive manual provides educators with innovative and interactive lesson plans to be utilized either individually or as an entire unit. This resource is designed for upper elementary students and complements the Once Upon a Tide film.

Download the Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans Curriculum Manual
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Download Supplemental Materials to the Curriculum Manual:
Lesson 8 Worksheet (student)
Lesson 8 Worksheet (key)
Lesson 12 Ebisu Slide Show
Lesson 12 Arts and Crafts Slide Show
Lesson 12 Seafood Slide Show

NEW! Watch a lecture by Executive Producer Kathleeen Frith on how the ocean heals, nourishes and sustains us.

The following resources address how the ocean heals, sustains and nourishes humans.

For Grades K-3

Marine Stewardship Council: Fish & Kids

National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:

Unifying Concepts and Processes

Systems, order and organization (food chain, ecological relationships in the ocean)

Life Science

Organisms and their environments (how humans alter environments for fish)

Science in personal and social perspectives

Types of resources
changes in environments

For Grades K-4

Once Upon a Tide Student Worksheet

Once Upon a Tide Educator Worksheet

For Grades 3-5

National Geographic: Taking Care of Our Oceans

National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:

Science in personal and social perspectives:

characteristics and changes in populations
changes in environments

National Geographic: The Ocean and Human Medicine

National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:

Unifying Concepts and Processes

Form and function (what is the function, for the organism, of the chemical that we extract from the organism to make drugs?)

Life Science

The characteristics of organisms (in this case, the marine species that provide sources of drugs)

Science in personal and social perspectives

Types of Resources (considering ocean as a resource for human health)

Canadian Council for Geographic Education: Our Changing Planet: Oceans, Land, and People

National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:

Science in personal and social perspectives:

characteristics and changes in populations

For Grades 4-5

National Geographic: Using Photography to Help Save the Oceans

National Science Education Content Standards Addressed:

Science and technology:

Ability to communicate a problem, design, and solution (through the activity itself)
Understanding about science and technology: in particular, understanding that tools help scientists make better observations and measurements. In this case, cameras (tools) allow scientists to make meaningful observations (about the ocean).